The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-28
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PERSONS AND THINGS.

John Logan was aa honest man.
His entire estate footed Up less than
$4,000. John Sherman is worth
s3,CoO,CCO.
Mr. Blaine praCcrs Senator Ben
Harrison as his joint victim for 1888.
The from rails which made the ar-
NOR of the famous confederate ram,
the Merrimac, were sold as junk the
other Cay in Richmond. The armor
of that noble old ship will be con-
yerted into nails and, if it is true to
Is its traditions. will make rattling good
. ones.
Rev. John Jasper, the most IA
NOUS colored preacher IN the world,
may De seen any fair night sitting in
Capitol squsre, Richmond, intently
studying the starry heavens. He
says he has seen nothing yet to shake
his faith in the great truth that ''the
sun do move
Good often comes out Of evil.
Jake Sharp has been sent to the
penitentiary in New York, and his
sentence is just. Yet had it not
been for Jake Sharp New York
: would not now enjoy the luxury and
ofthc Broadway surface
railrosa, which is the most popular
Institutions, that city.
Under the recent decision Of
Judge Deadly, dellvssa&dL, in the
United States district court in Ofe
gon, the Pacific railroads continue
to charge $500 for q car load O.
freight from New York to interue
diaSe points, while they carry Cal
load to San Francisco for $500.
The New York Erening Sun wa:
eminently correct when it said re
Gently that President Cleveland hac
been slightly unwell the day before
q bat that he would be in splendid
health in 1S86.-AtlontQ Consultation
The best salary in the world &C
cording to age is that of King Alton
so, OF. Spain. The young monarch
. is fourteen months old and is paid
S1,50O,00O E year.
Mayor Francis of St. Louis, tc
whom President Cleveland wrote bis
letter declining to 60 to the St. Louis
exposition, is regarded as one Of the
rising young men ofthe west. He is
only thirty.fve; is worth million
dollars which he made in the grain
business, and is one Of the leaders OF
the Missouri Democracy. He may
succeed Governor Marmaduke.
Ex-Congressmaa Money, of Mis-.
sissipi, says Mr. Cleveland will be
renominated. Money talks every
time.
General Pickett failed to capture
Cemetery ridge in 1863, but Mrs.
Pickett captured it without any
trouble n1SS7.
Dr.. A. G. Haygood, of Georgia, is
is smak;ng red hot prohibition speeches
in Texas.
Cincinnati is great city. At two
meetings Of its citizens over sS00,00O
has been subscribed to the Ohio cen.
tennial fund. 4 million will be
raised easily in Cicinnati alone.
Philadelphia newspapers are pros.
porous. The cashiers Of two of them
have become defaulters for large
amounts and the victimized papers
continue to come out as bright and
breezy as ever.
Francis Rondo, the Wisconsin
pioneer, who died recently at Fond
du Lac, aged more than one i.un.
dred years, is said to have left 454
descendants in three generations.
According to German paper, the
inventor Of lucifer matches was a
political prisoner, kaemmcrer, who
perfected his idea in 1888. within the
walls Of his prison. He did not
bring his experiments to sufficient
success to get much honor, far less
any money, from them, and died in
1858.
Prince Albert Victor Of Wales, re.
Gently went to Gibraltar for a month S
stay and took with him thirty tons Of
baggage.
Little Ph;,Dlogist Father, if COWS
are cattlcs, Why are calves kitties %
E.abcr in sl,c Georgia AesIslature
Two labor hills are now before the
Georgia House of Representatives,
one is called the ten hour bill" and